Professors can teach emotional intelligence concepts and activities to college students to boost motivation It’s 8:00am in Professor Samuel’s calculus class and the seats are full of community college students. What made those students get out of bed so early to...

Does taking a test cause you to break into a cold sweat and your mind to go blank? You may have test anxiety. Test anxiety is real, and it can be debilitating if you are in college, elementary school or applying for a job. Test anxiety causes significant decreases in...

Talents for Tolerance Workshops Inspire More EQ Activities We finally did our Talents for Tolerance workshop. It was a big success. We had 70 dental interns in King Abdulaziz University School of Dentistry in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia participate in our workshop. We sent...

I teach journalism and mass media at the local community college. Walking to class, half the students I see are bent over their phones. Those who came to class early are on screens, too. It is 9am and many have been on several devices since they woke up and will...

By Rachel Anne Goodman What happens when people cry in public? If “being emotional” is a sign of weakness, perhaps we are losing one of the most beautiful signals of human connection. First, let me confess I am very new to the world of Emotional Intelligence as it is...

More students leave college or university because of disillusionment, discouragement, or reduced motivation than leave due to low ability or dismissal by school administration (Clifton & Anderson, 2001). Higher Education has changed dramatically since I went...

Twenty years ago when I began teaching in the graduate program at Notre Dame de Namur University for individuals earning a credential or master’s in education, I started a ritual. It was the reporting of a conscious (not random but planned) act of kindness. My reason...

Talking to lovely grandparents, they were asking if I thought it strange how teens are so public, for example posting comments about crude behavior…. On the one hand I do find it strange. Looking @ what videos are popular on myspace — why would someone...

One of the most intriguing youtubes I’ve seen this year – students at Kansas State University and Mike Wesch (presumably the prof) put together this piece sharing some data about a group of 200 students. The result is a compelling “story” that...

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